Scouting Group for Winter Wonderland

[initiates]

The results are in, and after a trip over to Random.Org the following 25 names have come out on top. Congratulations!

Abbey Bominable
Asch the Bloody
Belle
Carlos
Caspian
Chris Pratt
Christopher Chareau de Red
Cross Marian
Elissa Cousland
Elmer C Albatross
Hitsugaya Toushirou
Irisa Nyria
Joy P Buckhead
Kallen Kouzuki
Kili
Leaf
Mai
Merrill
Nathan Sumers
Noh-Varr
Oerba Yun Fang
Raiden
Rinth Ghostshot
Travis Marks
Zelos Wilder

You all have the dubious honor of scouting out the situation Earth-side, and reporting back what it is you find to the people up at the Moon Base. You leave 11/27 0300, arriving planetside at 0800. Gotta love that trip back down.

All those on the scouting mission will need to scavenge supplies beforehand from the Moon Base. They will be told about the temperatures, and as of tonight, the AI has successfully hacked some of the satellites in orbit around Earth to get good imagery of what the ground looks like. Based on heat signatures and taken images, the AI suspects they're dealing with snow, and smaller numbers of people living in scattered groups, centralized around one large, city-like group it plans to land the scouts.

Mission objectives are simple. Locate the Initiative and begin a dialog. It's suggested everyone make use of the holographic technology still maintained on the Moon Base in order to blend in with the locals. Be warned, the holographs don't hold up under actual touch, and they don't change what your footprints look like outside of immediate physical range.

Any and all non-humans will be met with fear, up to and including violence.

Be careful, and be on the lookout. This iteration of the Initiative works on the extreme keep their heads down side. Talk to everyone, and be as subtle as you can be. That's the best way to flush them out of hiding.

Plotting and questions invited below (questions to the questions thread only, please, to not be missed!). The game at large will go down to Earth the first week of December.

Edit: The Scouting log is now up here!

Comments

Re: QUESTIONS

[crocodilesmiles]

1.) Yes! Bits and pieces of crumbled structures, things that look worn down by time, evidence that some may have fallen during bombings in the past.

2.) At this point in history, there's nothing overtly unusual except for the yetis, the temperatures are uniformly cold and most the area seems to be permanfrost inclined over anything else.

3.) Based on what you guys have been working up, my answer is yes -- my question is will anyone of the Transports seek to bargain for their services to be contracted to the Initiative in turn for access to a power source and area for the Transport Pad to be stabilized in? Rinth was tracking down the power source used by the major city, which funnels excess power out into the English Channel right now. For this, what I will assume if I don't hear back otherwise is that the Initiative is working with the Transports in hope of some unknown tool or weapon being used in their favor to work against the United Earth and break their chokehold on the world and it's remaining resources. If the Transport Pad isn't explained, then the Initiative will want a demonstration of what exactly it can do! (So let me know what you guys would want your characters to be offering. They're kind of unwittingly forming the initial contract simply by making contact. What are their basic terms?)

4.) If he does, it'll be convincing that there's a possibility they're being told the truth, if the Transports are being forthright with their time traveling abilities.

Re: QUESTIONS

[ringthenoise]

In terms of smugglers/finding them/etc, what do you suppose Raiden would be able to glean?

Have I apologized for all the questions yet?

Re: QUESTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

Caspian's player replied with some details on the first contact: http://exsiliumooc.dreamwidth.org/616169.html?thread=22008809#cmt22008809

If they wanted proof of time travel, Raiden could have showed them his data chip provided they have any technology that would be able to access it (a computer of some kind should be able to).

[highfrequency]

...This was me. Thought I was logged in. derp

[crocodilesmiles]

There should have been a way to access his files in that case! It wouldn't be easy or instantaneous, and there would be a lot of questioning the veracity, but it would give the Scouting team that kind of foot in the door they really wanted/needed for this whole thing to move forward. (Or persuasive arguments at all!)

[highfrequency]

He probably did that, then! It could also pique their curiosity enough to pour over the files from the diamond drive if other characters ever want to share those.

Sorry this is all so sloppy on my end.

Edit: Also, so you guys know what exactly it was Raiden offered, here is a wiki article about it.